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Childhood Quotes
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
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"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
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"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
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"My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories."
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"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
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"For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood."
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"If we are to use the words 'childish' and 'infantile' as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?"
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"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
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"My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way."
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"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."
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"I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus."
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"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."
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"Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it."
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"Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special."
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"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
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"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"
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"My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square."
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"I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent."
"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."
"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."
"Christmas was gluing cotton balls to Santa's beard in Coke ads, sneaking candy canes off the tree daily (that my parents replaced every few nights), enough gift-wrap to wallpaper a room, the terror and delight of knowing a magical being would enter my home while I slept."
"I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since."
"Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shyness and antagonism so often felt by children towards grown-up people who 'pretend,' which causes them to suffer as painfully. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it."
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